Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere Dinner & Fair

The Community Alliance for Global Justice (CAGJ), in partnership with BALLE Seattle and the Seattle Culinary Academy, invite you to help build local food systems, which are healthier for our environment, our communities and ourselves.

Nourish both mind and body while enjoying a delicious dinner made entirely from foods produced by Pacific Northwest farmers, ranchers and fisher folk using sustainable and just practices. To support small producers in other countries, the meal will incorporate Fair Trade foods, including rice, bananas, chocolate, sugar, coffee, and tea. Dinner will be prepared by local chefs and Seattle Culinary Academy students. WA state wines and beer will also be served at a cash bar.

Event details

Date: Saturday, July 21 Time: 4pm-9pm (dinner from 7pm-9pm) Location: 714 18th Ave, Polish Home on Capitol Hill, Seattle.

To purchase tickets for the dinner go to: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/16127.

Fair from 4-6:30 is open to the public (more information below)

Program includes

• Keynote by Rosalinda Guillen
• Discussions at each table with local farmers
• Dessert auction
• Free parking and Childcare.
• Ways that you can get involved in globalizing the local food revolution!

4:00–6:30 pm: Come to the Fair before the dinner: Open to the public!

Want to learn more about how to support alternatives to corporate-led globalization in Seattle and everywhere? Fair Trade, global justice and immigrant rights groups, and food and farming-related non-profit organizations will share information about food justice issues, the Fair Trade movement, local sustainability and gardening resources, and how to work for better trade, immigration and farm policy. Locally and fairly made food and other goods will also be available from small farmers, local businesses, and Fair Trade organizations!

Your support of this event helps CAGJ build our Strengthening Local Economies, Everywhere! Campaign. CAGJ works locally for justice in the global economy. Our campaign aims to educate and mobilize people to support the right of everyone, everywhere, to healthy local economies premised on respect for the environment and all workers in the food chain, including small farmers, farm workers, immigrants and grocery store workers: this is food justice.

CAGJ is excited to partner with Seattle BALLE and the Seattle Culinary Academy, the first cooking academy in the US to teach future chefs about sustainability issues through their partnerships with farms in the Skagit Valley, and their new greenhouse adjacent to Seattle Central.

Co-sponsors

WA Fair Trade Coalition, Seattle CISPES, Community to Community Development, Lettuce Link, WA State Farmers Market Association, Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance, United Farm Workers, Full Circle Farms, Pioneer Organics,YES! Magazine, Alter Eco, World Baby Foods, Bonnie River Fair Trade and World Friendly Store, iLEAP: The Center for Critical Service, WA Biotechnology Action Council, and Antioch's Center for Creative Change.